Woosh - trying it

Due to Telecom not coming to the party and making my line ADSl capable I am
trying out woosh.
I live in Auckland well within the 50km radius ofhttp://www.woosh.com/UserInterface/Woosh/Static/Roaming/Roaming.aspx
However I had to get an additional aerial as it wouldn't work without it.
You can only have one email address - have to pay for extra email addresses.
Don't have home page facility.
Don't have virus & spam protection
No news server

However I do get 256K ADSL speeds.
I could use the woosh modem mobile (on laptop) as it has rechargeable
battery like a mobile phone.

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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 11:57:44 +1300, Robert wrote:
> Due to Telecom not coming to the party and making my line ADSl capable I am
> trying out woosh.
> I live in Auckland well within the 50km radius of
> http://www.woosh.com/UserInterface/Woosh/Static/Roaming/Roaming.aspx
> However I had to get an additional aerial as it wouldn't work without it.

So, use it. Simple eh?
> You can only have one email address - have to pay for extra email addresses.

Now that is not logical. You can but you need pay yes?

From the woosh web site, members area

Quote

A standard email account comes with 5 alias email addresses. This enables
you to have 5 separate email addresses all going to the same mail box.

If you require any additional email accounts, these are $2.40 + GST per month.
This will enable you to have separate mail boxes. Each of these also
comes with 5 alias email addresses.

If you want either delete or add alias email to a particular email
address, then click on the 'manage' button next to each address.

Unquote.

So its kinda like 5 auto forwarders for nix.

> Don't have home page facility.

What do you mean by this? A portal?
> Don't have virus & spam protection
> No news server

This I have to say, is ONE point I hold right against Woosh. The work
around is to go to Germany, and use News.Individual.Net, a free news
server.

Also you are in the helping to provide competition to Telecom camp. Good
on you. Competition is good for customers.

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 11:57:44 +1300, Robert <> wrote:
> Due to Telecom not coming to the party and making my line ADSl capable I
> am trying out woosh.
> I live in Auckland well within the 50km radius of
> http://www.woosh.com/UserInterface/Woosh/Static/Roaming/Roaming.aspx
> However I had to get an additional aerial as it wouldn't work without
> it.
> You can only have one email address - have to pay for extra email
> addresses.

To be pedantic, that is one account as standard, with five email aliases
going into one mailbox.

"Robert" <> wrote in message news:<njBed.13611$>...
> Due to Telecom not coming to the party and making my line ADSl capable I am
> trying out woosh.
> I live in Auckland well within the 50km radius of
> http://www.woosh.com/UserInterface/Woosh/Static/Roaming/Roaming.aspx
> However I had to get an additional aerial as it wouldn't work without it.
> You can only have one email address - have to pay for extra email addresses.
> Don't have home page facility.
> Don't have virus & spam protection
> No news server
>
> However I do get 256K ADSL speeds.
> I could use the woosh modem mobile (on laptop) as it has rechargeable
> battery like a mobile phone.

I have Woosh and joining them was the best thing I did. No problems
at!!
Newsgroups can be downloaded from Google for free as can anti virus
programmes. Go to Spamfighter and download their free anti spam
programme. It works well

Due to Telecom not coming to the party and making my line ADSl capable I
am
trying out woosh.
I live in Auckland well within the 50km radius ofhttp://www.woosh.com/UserInterface/Woosh/Static/Roaming/Roaming.aspx
However I had to get an additional aerial as it wouldn't work without it.
You can only have one email address - have to pay for extra email
addresses.
Don't have home page facility.
Don't have virus & spam protection
No news server

However I do get 256K ADSL speeds.
I could use the woosh modem mobile (on laptop) as it has rechargeable
battery like a mobile phone.

> Due to Telecom not coming to the party and making my line ADSl capable
> I am trying out woosh.
> I live in Auckland well within the 50km radius of http://www.woosh.com/
> UserInterface/Woosh/Static/Roaming/Roaming.aspx
> However I had to get an additional aerial as it wouldn't work without
> it.
> You can only have one email address - have to pay for extra email
> addresses.
> Don't have home page facility.

Both of these can be solved by signing up for Orcon's free web hosting
and email account. They're free, work well, and you'll still have them
if you change from Woosh to another ISP. The web hosting offers 10MB of
space, no ads, and a nice domain name of the form yourname.orcon.net.nz
instead of the typical homepages.isp.com/~yourname/. The email uses a
real POP server, although there's also a web interface if you want it.
<http://orcon.net.nz/products/onlineservices/>
> Don't have virus & spam protection

Again, the Orcon email service has virus and spam filtering. I've
avoided using my Woosh email address for anything, so don't get any spam
on it.
> No news server

Someone else suggested the free news server hosted by <http://news.
individual.net/>, which I can second.

--
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealandhttp://vintageware.orcon.net.nz/
________________________________________________________________________
No Silicon Heaven? Preposterous! Where would all the calculators go?

"Gordon" <> wrote in message
news...
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 11:57:44 +1300, Robert wrote:
>
>> Due to Telecom not coming to the party and making my line ADSl capable I
>> am
>> trying out woosh.
>
>> However I do get 256K ADSL speeds.
>
> Psst, ADSL runs over copper wires of the telephone line

The local exchange needs to be enabled for ADSL. But who wants to give
Telecom money, especially with their mingy throttling and high charges.

I would love to try Woosh, but they don't seem interested in supplying a
service in my area (15KM from Central Wellington, 2KM from Porirua City, 50m
from the national Police College). So that puts them in the same 'tosser'
basket as Saturn (or whatever they call themselves this week) who couldn't
be bothered making the 'cable' investment here either.

And it's not as if there's no population base, just not sufficiently
lucrative....

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